Q.: I have six 90-foot tall oaks in my yard. As the leaves fell, I see that many are covered with tiny button-shaped things. It seems worse with the white oak rather than the red oak. Earlier in the ...
When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...
Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky insects make the tree do all the work. “What nerve!” you might say. What … gall! And you’d be right. Oak galls are caused ...
We have had numerous calls and samples about funny looking "bumps" on the leaves of oak trees. These growths are known as galls, and alarming as they may seem, they do not injure the plant. Galls are ...
Earlier this month my colleague, LyAnn Graff, brought in an interesting looking fuzz ball surrounding a thin leafy branch of a burr oak tree. It was about the size of a golf ball, but with red-tipped ...
DEAR JOAN: There has been much discussion on Nextdoor about oak galls lately, mostly about how the galls are harmless to the tree and that they’re quite prevalent this year on oak trees around ...
DEAR GARDEN COACH: Help! I recently discovered these crazy looking things on the leaves of my valley oak tree. I am wondering what is wrong, and what can I do to get rid of them? I know the tree is ...
Q: My oak tree looks like it is making fruit the size of ping-pong balls. Now I know that they make acorns, so they couldn't possibly make fruit, right? What are these round plum-looking fruits ...
This past winter was above-average in temperature. Rarely, if at all, did we have any of those bone-chilling days or nights. As a result of the mild winter, people were asking if we would see more ...
Jumping Jehoshaphat! The ground is alive! Or so it seems when hundreds of tiny round spheres the size of a pin head are hopping around on the sidewalk. This spring there are plenty of these curious ...
When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...
When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...
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